ON JUNE 9 Wagin’s A-grade women travelled to Pingelly in what turned out to be good day for hockey.

The Wagin women knew it would be a hard fought game and although Pingelly are having a hard year they are tough competitors and on wet grass anything can happen.

Pingelly were grass ready and attacked strongly.

Wagin’s trusty fullbacks Fiona Kirk and Terri Spooner and goalie Lyn Lucas, ensured each attempt into the circle was denied, though they found it hard to get the ball back through Pingelly’s press and it was returned to them time and again.

Finally Wagin began to use a short ball and their width and the game opened up.

Monique Lydiate, Sally Thomson and Tara Lydiate on the half line, along with inners Dominique Hodge and Anette Quartermaine, provided the run Wagin needed and linking with their forwards Wagin soon began to dominate.

Strikers Emily Holt, Alice Lydiate and Leah Kellow kept the opposition confused with their leading and switching and eventually Holt opened the scoring and Wagin’s reign of goals soon followed.

Zali Spencer was effective as the sub running on to various positions.

Pingelly played hard but Wagin was the stronger side winning 10 nil.

Holt finished with five goals, Spooner with two, Hodge one, A Lydiate one and Kellow one.

Umpire’s best went to Spooner, Holt and A Lydiate.

The team thanked Kevin Foale for umpiring.

The A-grade woman now have two weeks’ bye and they wished all the girls going to Country Week the best of luck.

UGS were well represented with a division one and division two team, which were both undefeated during the first two days of the competition.

In the hotly contested division one competition, the UGS team had a lot to prove after missing out on last year’s grand final.

The team was well drilled by coach Matthew Corner, who possibly had one of the more impressive team lists in recent history with the likes of youngsters Steven Durell (All Blacks), Shaun McKay (Riffs) and Wade Angwin (Riffs) matching it with the best throughout the competition.

As was predicted going on form over the weekend, UGS faced Geraldton in the highly anticipated grand final.

Both teams were undefeated coming into the game and Geraldton were able to capitalise on some early chances and run away with a 3-0 lead just before half-time.

When a short corner goal to UGS was disallowed, the local lads were looking slightly overwhelmed with the task ahead.

A half-time rev up from Corner seemed to do the trick, with some strong attacking work resulting in a penalty stroke and goal to ex-Kookaburra Bevan George (Olympics).

Durell’s pace and skill was then rewarded when a Geraldton defender decided to go for the legs and not the ball, with a short corner awarded and UGS were able to draw the score at 3-3 through Kendall Ballard.

The game had certainly seen a shift in momentum, with the UGS boys kept under wraps through the experience of George and Steve Sexton (Olympics).

In a super human effort, UGS were able to put two more goals away and run away with one of the most astonishing wins ever witnessed by many in the crowd.

George and Ballard ended with two goals each while Durell chipped in with one.

UGS were well represented in the All Stars team with George, Sexton, Durell and Chris Allen (Warriors) selected.

The division two team, ably coached by Steve Lynham, drew with Esperance and defeated Margeret River on the first day of the competition, before defeating Peel and then Geraldton in the cross over games on Sunday.

This resulted in a re-match against Esperance in the grand final on Monday.

Despite the best efforts of the UGS boys, including a late goal to draw the game, they were unable to stop an Esperance counter attack which saw them take the lead and hold onto a 2-1 win.

UGS were also awarded the Singapore Cup for the association with the best overall results from the championships.

Sandra Moffatt and Jenny Umfahrer sell scrumptious cupcakes, healthy home grown vegies and wood raffle tickets to raise money for the Wagin Gun Club.THE Wagin Gun Club has started fundraising to help build the facilities required to hold events in the disciplines of International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) trap, double trap and skeet.

The club has been identified by the state body, WA Clay Target Association (WACTA), as being one of the ideal sites for ISSF facilities.

WACTA will be able to provide Wagin with about $85,000 worth of machinery to assist in this project but the Wagin Gun Club just needs to be able to build the infrastructure required.

At present there are only two clubs in the state that can host ISSF events - Cunderdin and Perth.

This means that shooters from the Great Southern and South West are required to travel many hours in order to compete or train in these disciplines and many of these do so with the dream of one day attending the Commonwealth Games or the Olympics.

The gun club has already held a successful wood raffle and cake stall and plans to do more of these in the future as well as a corporate shooting event are also under way.

The club has been overwhelmed by support from some tradespeople and businesses in town.

With fundraising and grant applications all going to plan, the club would like to see the ISSF facilities up and running by mid-2013.